Apple Brown Betty is a thoroughly   American dessert that belongs to a group of cobbler-style preparations that include grunts, crisps, crumbles, pandowdies, buckles, slumps, flummeries and the sonker, a dessert found in North Carolina cookery.

Apple brown Betty in all its glory. Serve it with good vanilla ice cream, preferably homemade

Apple brown Betty in all its glory. Serve it with good vanilla ice cream, preferably homemade

In many ways the Betty most resembles a kind of bread pudding or crisp. But instead of using bread cubes, crumbs are the preferred topping and thickener for the filling.

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